Continuances have been granted in the two criminal homicide trials of a former State Line man.

Jeffrey Eldon Miles Sr., now 50, has been in Franklin County Jail for more than three years in connection to the April 2010 stabbing death of Kristy Dawn Hoke, 29, of Hagerstown. He was arrested April 6, 2010, after he reportedly led local law enforcement officials to her body, which was dumped in a wooded area off of Ninth Street in Waynesboro. He had been found threatening suicide on an Interstate 81 overpass earlier that morning.

Miles is also awaiting trial in the 1995 beating death of Waynesboro teen Angie Lynn Daley. While police were investigating Hoke’s death, they found evidence implicating Miles in Daley’s disappearance. He led police to her remains on a farm in Waynecastle the day Hoke’s body was found, according to charging documents filed in the case. He was charged with homicide in Daley’s death in October 2012.

Miles faces the death penalty if convicted in Hoke’s murder.

Judges’ orders

The trial in Hoke’s death was originally scheduled for March 2012. It was delayed until February 2013 until it was delayed again, with selection among 240 potential jurors scheduled to begin at the end of July before the two- or three-week trial.

President Judge Douglas W. Herman granted the continuance June 21. A new trial date has not yet been set.

“The court hereby determines that the evidence sought by the defendant through expert testimony will be a significant factor in the penalty phase of the case, and to deny the request would deprive the defendant of this evidence and most likely would be an error of law by the court,” Miles’ online court docket reads.

Miles’ attorney Eric Weisbrod could not be reached for comment before press time this morning.

A continuance in the Daley case was also granted June 21 by Judge Carol Van Horn. It has now been delayed until Sept. 9, 2013, according to online court records.